Even without my hardware specs, why the heck would we be using 190mb of swap when there is 283mb of real memory available? I got something similar to this on a pure Ubuntu 8.04 install as well. Though, Arch (obviously) doesn't even touch swap on this same system.

Swill

And you ate the whole... wheel of cheese? How'd you do that? Heck, I'm not even mad; that's amazing.

There is nothing strange about this - what's swapped out is (hopefully) something that's hardly usedThis is controlled by "swappiness" which can have a value between 0 and 100 - 0 only swap if space in RAM runs out, 100 swap a lot Ubuntu has 60 as default and so does Mint while Arch probably has a lower valueTo find your swappiness